Jennifer Michael Hecht

“When They Die We Change Our Minds About Them When they die we change our minds about them. While they live we…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

“For Epicurus, living prudently, in deep appreciation of modest pleasures, was not just the route to happiness, it was happiness.”

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

“Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment.

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

“None of us can truly know what we mean to other people, and none of us can know what our future self…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

“We seem obsessed with motivation, rallying ourselves to something beyond the life available to us right now, and we treat this motivation…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

We believe each other into being.

— Jennifer Michael Hecht